How can you get rid of pain in your muscles and joints?  Would you believe me if I said it’s fairly simple?  All you have to do is…

Exactly what your body wants you to do!  🙂

Truly, your body has certain things that it needs and wants.  When you don’t hand them over, it gets cranky.  And when your body is complaining it makes you hurt.

What does your body need?

Real food.  There are tons of reasons not to eat highly processed food-type items that were made in factories.

And here’s a thought:

If you had the choice of a luscious salad with a mix of fresh ingredients or a piece of cake, which would you choose?  Which do you think your body would choose?  Why?

Here’s another thought:

If I offered you pancakes made with white flour, egg whites and fake maple syrup made with high fructose corn syrup and artificial color and artificial flavor, would you choose that?  Or would you choose whole eggs, whole grain toast with real butter and a piece of fruit?

Which would your body choose?  Be honest.

When we don’t feed our bodies what they want, here’s what we get:  Fat.  Sick.  Old.

Think about your car.  Your car needs the correct fuel to operate properly.  You wouldn’t put milk in your car because that isn’t the right fuel.

You need the correct fuel, too.

Think about what Grandma ate and you will be much, much closer to real food.  (If Grandma had enough money and food, she ate whole eggs, right?  And meat with fat?  That’s the way God made them.)

Movement.  You were built to move but most of us spend way too much time sitting.  Bodies don’t like that.

Joints need to be oiled.  That happens with movement.  That makes them happier.

Muscles need to be stretched and exercised.  That makes them happier, too.  It even makes your bones stronger!

Exercise doesn’t have to be jumping around, aerobic, heavy-weights-over-your-head type of movement.

Any regular movement will do.  Walking is great.  So is paddling around in water or holding onto the edge of a pool and kicking.

Sway from side to side.  Rotate your ankles when you sit.  It’s movement, right?

Sit-ups?  Forget it.  Unless you are an athlete in prime condition who uses ALL of your muscles you have more of a chance of hurting yourself doing sit-ups than doing good.

Take Care of Trigger Points.  Trigger points (TP) are overlooked by most doctors and misunderstood by most of the rest of us.  They are not just a tender area.

TP’s are very irritable areas of muscle or other soft tissues that can cause pain in dysfunction.  And sometimes those symptoms are very far from the actual TP!

You can learn how to be your own trigger point therapist.  Claire Davies wrote an easy-to-use, do-it-yourself trigger point book available at Amazon or your local library.

You really can get rid of muscle pain naturally with good self-care, solid information from trustworthy people and nutrition!